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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1900
Page
3
Daily News in Merrsville Indiana advertises an item listed by McKennan and Ashworth for sale with location and contact details.
Frank Percell and two companions, jailed in Petersburg Indiana, face lynching threats after Percell allegedly killed William Riss of Arthur with a revolver shot in the eye following a party incident. Police rushed the trio to safety to avert mob violence. Also reported Pays Off a Floating Indebtedness at Winona Assembly and Summer School seeking funds to improve grounds and offer new prime lots near the auditorium.
John F. Stone of Kingfisher Indian Territory was murdered last Friday. A former Wabash County resident born near Lafontaine in 1868, he became president of the Peoples' Bank at Kingfisher. Stone served as a major in the Spanish American War and his relatives live in Wabash.
In Brazil Indiana Frederick Chapin stood trial for forging notes totaling 6500 on Sterling R Molt of Indianapolis. A jury returned a guilty verdict after a long deliberation. The case involved local bankers and alleged forged notes tied to a collection effort.
Logansport Indiana reports John Hydinger sues 8 B Mickam the perpetenter light man for 2000 back salary claiming workers were catching lightning bugs attracting nightly light to a mansion. Authorities may pursue federal action as earlier charges were dropped. An unrelated note from Indianapolis details a 75 year old man amputating his own hand at a hospital washroom.
Cleveland workers vote to strike the four American Steel and Wire rod mills in the city. About 200 to 800 workers involved with 4000 others affected regionally as mills close and job losses mount across Beaver Falls Pennsylvania and Illinois Indiana facilities. Elvin Phillips, a Fourth Tennessee Volunteer, fatally shot Chitwood after earlier violence. Harrison kin suffer head injury in Texas accident. Frank Davie convicted for wife and girl murders. sentenced to forty five years.
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